Inspired by an article in NYT about Google becoming a media company, I decided that something had to be done. So I created a way to Search with Google without getting results from Google sites such as Knol, Blogger and YouTube.
Timo Paloheimo has built the search engine using Google’s Custom Search Engine and has filtered out all links to Google Sites. Other ignored google domains include Jaiku, Gmail and Blogspot. Strangely whenever I put anything in I get Wikipedia as the top link, but then you get the same when searching Google anyway. A good step forward would be to filter out all of the big fish; Wikipedia, MSN, Yahoo, etc and all domains added by them, maybe even chop and choose which domains you want to filter out allowing you to find pages swirling around at the bottom of the tank?
Timo runs a blog called Startupbin and is aiming to find out as much as he can about web startups, with a goal of finding that ‘idea’ to kick start his own. If anyone has any of those ideas, please share them with me before passing them onto Timo!
